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January February 2021 Volume LVII, Number 1 newsletter of the San Francisco Folk Music Club Jan/Feb 2021 friends and families making home-grown music together Dear SFFMC, Jas Adams Steps Down as Song Pages Co-Editor A heartfelt thank you to Jas Adams for your five years as 2020 has been quite a year with a profound impact on our song pages co-editor! We appreciate your dedication to the our folk community. Some of us have been struggling folknik and will miss having you on our editing team. with health issues, whether Covid-19 related or otherwise. We have lost some cherished members of our Welcome, Bob Loomis! SFFMC community. Our music gatherings have shifted We’re thrilled to announce Bob Loomis has joined us as !"#$%&$ to virtual spaces, and though we still gather together, we Co-Editor! Bob is a retired journalist and copy editor who formerly miss seeing and jamming with each other in person. worked for the Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times and other For me, 2020 has been a year like no other. It’s been a newspapers . A singer/songwriter and published poet, he is now a cascading stream of stressful events, from being hit by a member of the Irish Newsboys Celtic folk song group. He is car, to my husband and seven-year daughter being held married, the father of two children, and has two grandsons.He at gunpoint (and a lot in between). And so, when I find plays guitar, ukulele, flute, penny whistle, and harmonica. myself leaning into loneliness and despair, I remind myself to take a step back, close my eyes, and reflect on Membership Renewals this year’s joys (and there are many). And, I’ve given by Ellen Eagan myself another challenge - to write out these joyous reflections as a sequence of six word memoirs that If this was a normal year, many of us would have renewed our highlight the good I’ve experienced amidst the membership already as part of Camp Harmony registration. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, this is not a normal year. As overarching 2020 chaos. this year’s camp was free, there may not be the incentive to renew Supposedly, someone once challenged author Ernest your membership. Nevertheless, you should renew your Hemingway to write a six-word memoir. His story? membership, as the San Francisco Fok Music Club needs your dues “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” More recently, to keep going as an organization. Author Larry Smith has popularized this brief story You can renew the old-fashioned way by printing out a membership writing form through the Six Word Memoir Project. form from the club's website (https://www.sffmc.org/join-us/), I invite you now to write your own six word memoir to complete the form and send it to the address on the form with your share with the SFFMC community. You can email your check made out to SFFMC. Or, you can renew the new-fashioned way by using the PayPal link on the club's website. You do not need six words to me at [email protected], and a PayPal account to do it. You will be using PayPal to charge your we’ll feature your stories in our February-March folknik. credit card. If you need a little inspiration, here’s a recent example from The New York Times, where readers shared words Please DO NOT go directly to PayPal and make a payment. When of gratitude. you do that, the membership secretary does not get notified of your renewal and the treasurer won't know what the payment is for. Nor My six word memoir for the SFFMC community? is there a chance for you to update, if needed, your contact Grateful for you, my folk family. information. Best wishes for 2021, The date of your membership expiration should be in the email that you get when a new issue of the folknik is available. You can also Donna Scarlett, Editor-in-Chief email [email protected] to ask about your memberhip expiration date. can also email [email protected] to ask about your membership expiration date. Thank you! the folknik Vol. LVII, Number 1 Page 2 January/February 2021 The San Francisco Folk Music Club is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the enjoyment, preservation and promotion of acoustic music in individual, family, and community life. ““He who sings frightens away his ills.” – Miguel de Cervantes Board Members President: Ed Hilton ♦ Vice President: Hali Hammer Thad Binkley ♦ Charlie Fenton ♦ Bob Helliesen ♦ Daniel Hersh Amelia Hogan ♦ Phyllis Jardine ♦ Jerry Michaels ♦ Dave Sahn 2nd and 4th Friday Zoom Sessions Rise Again by Jim McCain (review) by Marlene McCall by James Keelaghan During the COVID pandemic, while it is unsafe for I often draw inspiration from books — I find stories folks to gather in real life to sing and play, the club’s usual or facts that can be woven into songs. 2nd and 4th Friday music meetings are being held via Zoom, My characters last for about five minutes. I have from 8:00 to approximately midnight, although of course never thought of going in the opposite direction and using participants are free to leave the session when they wish. a song as inspiration for a longer work. Upcoming Friday session dates are January 8, January Jim Cain of Rochester, NY, decided to do just that. 22, February 12, and February 26. In order to obtain the He’s taken Stan Rogers’s anthemic Mary Ellen Carter and link and the theme for each session, please sign up for the used it as the inspiration for his sprawling novel of the Harmony List here: https://groups.io/g/harmony. same name. He creates a back story for the story song: You can choose to participate in these Zoom sessions why had the skipper been drinking? Why did the mate via audio only, or audio with video, using a computer, feel no pain? How did she get so close to Three Mile tablet, or smart phone, and you can also participate via Rock anyway? audio only on a regular phone. Along the way, we learn about Transport Canada The sessions are structured like the real-life song safety regulations, a deep dive into salvage techniques, circles, with a theme for each session. For those who the finer points of feeding a crew at sea, and more. Cain haven’t attended Zoom sessions, a disadvantage is that has meticulously and exhaustively researched the everyone cannot sing and play together as in real life, due specialties that touch on his subject matter and weaves to what’s called latency, or a time gap. Therefore, as the them into his narrative for an — if you’ll forgive the pun turn moves from one song leader to the next, everyone — immersive experience. must be muted except for the songleader, although of Dyed-in-the-wool Rogers fans will get a kick out of the course all participants are encouraged to sing along/play way Cain brings in other songs from Stan’s canon. Emmett along from your home. Pierce, from Field Behind the Plow, shows up, as does a For the assistance of instrumentalists who are playing touching reference to the equally epic White Squall. along, please announce your key before starting your song. Peppered throughout the text are scannable QR Keep remarks brief (in between songs and while codes, which lead you to videos, articles, illustrations, and introducing songs) since others are waiting for their turn. websites that flesh out the experience and provide a Ed Hilton, club president, hosts the sessions. soundtrack for your reading. Debbie Klein usually keeps a list of the songs (on At 500 or so pages, it will keep you occupied for a theme) sung at each session, and I will print those here in good chuck of the remainder of the pandemic. the folknik when I can. While the amount of background research is impressive, the narrative would be more compelling with judicious editing as sometimes the story suffers from the weight of the details. This isn’t a deal breaker but while Second Tuesday of Board Meetings on Zoom: considering the editing, a larger font size wouldn’t go th th each month. January 12 and February 9 , 2020, both at amiss for aging eyes. 8:00 p.m. If you’d like to attend a board meeting, please The book is currently self-published and is available contact Ed Hilton, club president, at [email protected]. from www.teamworkandteamplay.com. the folknik Vol. LVII, Number 1 Page 3 January/February 2021 Singing "Rolling Down to Old Maui" In Hawaii? Sung on 11/13/20 – Winter by Peter Ross 40° Below Only a Lull in the Storm In the liner notes to his album Between the Breaks… Live!, that Ain’t no Sunshine Paint it Black included the song "Rolling Down to Old Maui", Stan Rogers When She’s Pussy Willows, Cattails commented, "Emily Friedman introduced this song to me in her Gone Santa Baby hotel room at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1978, and I've loved it Are you Missing Me Seasons in the Sun ever since. It may very well be my favourite chorus song." Big River Snow Snow Bring Back the Light Soup I also love the song, which really gets people to sing along and is California Dreaming Thanksgiving Eve fun, and I would have no qualms about leading it outside of Canadian Love Try for the Sun Hawaii.
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